[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 1/3] cifs: rename cifs_iget to cifs_root_iget

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Sun Apr 5 13:54:53 GMT 2009


On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:42:14 -0400
Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:09:19AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > The current cifs_iget isn't suitable for anything but the root inode.
> > Rename it with a more appropriate name.
> 
> And using it for the root inode is stupid, too as it can't be in cache.
> 
> The root inode is the case where you can easily use new_inode.
> 

Yep. We might want to just get rid of that eventually and move the IPC
stuff elsewhere. With the follow-on patches here, I think using iget
makes the code a little simpler so I'll leave this in place for now.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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